CALIFORNIA'S STATE PRISON SYSTEM PUTS OUT A BILLION TO KEEP MEXICAN CRIMINALS BEHIND BARS. THE FEDS REIMBURSE US FOR ABOUT 10%. MEX OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES SPENDS ABOUT TWICE AS MUCH AS ARIZONA TO KEEP ILLEGAL CRIMINALS BEHIND BARS! AND THEN PAYS OUT $600 IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!
WE ARE MEXICO'S WELFARE, PRISON, BIRTHING CENTER, AND JOBS PLAN! VIVA LA RECONQUISTA!
AZ is shelling out $150 million a year to incarcerate illegals (The Feds paid ONLY 12.8 million )
Time for Arizona to file a lawsuit of its own
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by Laurie Roberts, columnist - Jun. 27, 2010 09:10 PM
The Arizona Republic
President Barack Obama's emissaries are expected in Arizona on Monday to meet with Gov. Jan Brewer.
When they arrive, I hope she has some suitable gifts on hand to welcome them to the Grand Canyon State. A bola tie perhaps, and maybe one of those handy scorpion paperweights.
And definitely a bill for $750 million.
This week, it's widely expected that the United States of America is going to sue the state of Arizona. It seems we rank right up there with Osama bin Laden and British Petroleum as enemies of the state.
So I'm thinking we ought to return the favor.
For a couple of months now, we've been the nation's punching bag as politicians across the country have proclaimed us the spawn of Hitler, given this state's embrace of Senate Bill 1070. It doesn't help when state Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, pops up on TV every other day, talking about alien invasions.
Me? I don't like SB 1070. It opens the door to profiling and even if it didn't, it just seems silly for the cops to be chasing around town busting landscapers while heavily armed drug smugglers march through our deserts and into our neighborhoods. But I understand the frustration that led a majority of this state's residents to look to people like Pearce for answers, because the feds seem far, far away from Arizona - both in mileage and mind-set.
These days, even Janet Napolitano - who just two years ago was asking her predecessor in Homeland Security to leave National Guard troops at the border - is repeating the new mantra that the border is more secure than it's ever been. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Land Management is posting signs in the Sonoran Desert National Monument, about 80 miles south of Phoenix, warning visitors about drug and human traffickers passing through the area.
I remember the good old days when then-Gov. Napolitano was sending bills to the Justice Department, asking to be reimbursed for the hundreds of millions of dollars Arizonans pay to house illegal immigrants who are in our prisons because the feds aren't doing their job.
"Arizonans already pay a high price for illegal immigration," she wrote in a 2005 letter accompanying an invoice. "I'm demanding that the federal government live up to its obligations and stop pushing the burden onto the taxpayers of Arizona."
I don't think she ever got much response out of the Bush administration and Team Obama doesn't seem anymore inclined to pay its bills. In fact, Obama last year recommended eliminating funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which is intended to reimburse states for their costs associated with jailing illegal immigrants. In the end, Congress defied him and allocated $300 million to the program.
In Arizona, 6,100 of the state's 41,000 prison inmates are here illegally, according to Tasya Peterson, a spokeswoman for Brewer.
The last time the feds kicked in to help, she said, was in 2008. According to figures provided by the state, it cost Arizona $120.4 million to incarcerate illegal immigrants that year, not counting the expense of arrest and prosecution. The feds picked up about 10 percent of the tab: $12.8 million, leaving Arizona taxpayers to shoulder the rest of a burden that exists because the federal government can't - or won't - do its job.
Brewer last week informed Obama that we are now shelling out $150 million a year to incarcerate illegal immigrants.
Instead of our own government suing us this week - what, five lawsuits over SB 1070 isn't enough? - perhaps the Justice Department might like to conserve its resources and pay its bills which, in Arizona, are long, long past due.
According to Brewer's office, the feds now owe us $750 million to cover prison costs dating as far back as 2003.
Who knows? Maybe Obama's staffers will be bringing a pile of gold today when they meet with Brewer, to satisfy their debt. If not, were I governor I might be inclined to toss in one more gift for Obama's staffers to deliver to the White House . . . a summons.
Maybe it's time for us to file a lawsuit of our own.
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8635. Read her blog at robertsblog.azcentral.com.
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andycJun-28 @ 5:35 AM Report abuse 449
Please stop using the false assertion that police will be busy "chasing around busting landscapers". This feeds the false perception of the law. It does NOT require or even allow police to stop or arrest people solely concerning immigrant status. It only requires police to make a "reasonable" effort to determine immigrant status if they have "reasonable suspicion" they are here illegally only AFTER they have been arrested or detained for another crime.
niggieone Jun-28 @ 9:14 AM Report abuse119
It's really difficult to see the racism assertions...but I also wonder why a very simple solution isn't implemented. Make it mandatory to ask everyone that gets stopped what their country of citizenship is. If they were to do that then it would not be selective enforcement.
Jane2042 Jun-29 @ 1:52 PM Report abuse01
That is what SB1070 will require...EVERYONE WHO IS STOPPED...WILL BE ASKED THEIR CITIZENSHIP. This is what takes the so-called prejudice and race bateing out of the arguments. For instance, all whites should be asked, look at the instance which has just occured in NYC regarding the Russian spies...they look like anyone else in this country who is white. Color of skin should have nothing to do with who gets asked and who doesn't...anyway, when they run your car license, drivers license, they will have all of the information on file. However, there has been so many FALSE I.D.'S created over the last 20 years, we do need a biometric means of telling who the person is or is not.
SouthernLadyJun-28 @ 6:22 AM Report abuse 237
A racist cop will be stupid and arrest a person because they are hispanic even without SB 1070. That's the nature of racism. If someone gets arrested in any town in the US, they are asked for identification. If an American is arrested in Mexico, they are asked for their passport or "papers." Just as they are required to present in any European country.
I agree that it's time for Arizona to file its own lawsuit. The people of Arizona have a right to be protected against invasion. The United States is fighting against drug lords in Afghanistan, but won't protect its OWN citizens against an invasion of foreign drug lords on American land. That's just plain o' CRAZY!
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Ju1985 Jun-28 @ 8:15 AM Report abuse204
You're forgetting the fact that Americans are the number one consumers of narcotics, therefore you get what what you ask for. Instead of whining and complaining get out there and help out your fellow Americans get off the addiction and reach out to your community. Volunteer for once, spend time helping out troubled youth, educate your children.
TheBadGuy Jun-28 @ 8:52 AM Report abuse010
Please get off the #1 consumers of drugs line. It's just a talking point aimed at taking the focus off of 1) fighting against illegal drugs and 2) trying to stop illegal immigration. I don't use them, my friends and family don't, and we would all like something done to stop it. We are tired of politicians spinning everything to protect their spot and to protect those who are funding their campaigns. So before you keep judging people you don't know, asking them to get involved, perhaps you should wake the hell up to reality.
Your Reply to TheBadGuy's Comment:
WRONG ANSWER. FIRST THINGS FIRST.
We are dealing with a FLOOD of drugs. Like a real flood, you must FIRST divert and drain the flood and only then can you repair and remidate the propety damaged. Remember, Drug users begin with a weakened condition. And to attend their addiction while doing nothing to stem the rising tide that fuels their addiction is moronic and dishonest. It's like saying more ethics classes will rid us of corrupt politicians. We know that's not true. It's the force of good law that does the most good for the most number of people. Keep Standing Tall Arizona. The majority of our Country's Citizens support you. Continue the fight to remain a nation of laws and borders.
DHM51Jun-28 @ 6:30 AM Report abuse 227
Keep in mind that Nappy tried this when she was guv and Bush was the President. She was very unhappy when Bush said no.
But now that she is a member of Obama's inner circle it's a completely different story. For some reason the change in political party removed her belief that the Feds should pay...funny how that happens, huh?
jimk2500Jun-28 @ 7:04 AM Report abuse 316
It's like the poor doctors waiting on payment from Medicare or Medicaid. We give the feds a bill and if they decide to pay it will be on their terms in their time.
Jane2042 Jun-29 @ 1:58 PM Report abuse00
The place to solve many of our problems is listening to less B.S. from politicians, and using our commonsense in the voting booth!!!
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